Sweden Feels the 'Euphoria' of Another Eurovision Crown

BRUSSELS—Sweden emerged victorious at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday night, its fifth victory in the history of the famously kitsch singing pageant.

Loreen, the winning act, and her song "Euphoria," an upbeat dance number, got 372 points, a landslide victory, and this with the highest number of 12-point scores—the maximum each country gets to award—in the contest's history. Russia's singing grannies with onstage dumpling-baking finished second with 259 points and Serbia's ballad...